[Video] International Women’s Day Protest at Qalandia

From the moment we arrived at the International Women’s Day protest at the Qalandia checkpoint, we could’t hear ourselves think. The Israeli Defense Forces had already activated a sound bomb- a loud, persistent and painful noise that feels like a hammer pounding a nail into your eardrum. They were already launching tear gas canisters into the crowd and “skunk water” was being sprayed (a putrid, carcinogenic liquid with a smell that won’t leave for weeks). We soon realized that our plan to shoot many interviews with women wasn’t going to happen. And more »